16-Nov-2013 -- On 16 November I made a new bus trip aiming to dedicate one whole day to visit confluences. I left Fortaleza city at 19:00 and arrived at Juazeiro do Norte city at 5:00 of following day, crossing north-south the Ceará state.

I took a snack and had to wait until 7:00, the opening hour of the rental car agency. I caught the car and headed to the first confluence of the day, 7S 39W, located in the neighborhoods of Aurora city. I passed by Barbalha and Missão Velha cities and arrived at BR-116 highway.

When I arrived at BR-116 highway, I remembered my first travel from Minas Gerais to Ceará states, in June 2012, in that I had visited three confluences. In that long trip, made in its major extension on BR-116 highway, I passed by this part of the road in that I was passing now. The report of that trip starts at 15S 41W.

I headed some kilometers by BR-116 highway in northern direction up to the Aurora city access road. Some more kilometers, and I arrived at the city. From Aurora, the road was unpaved. The 9 kilometers on unpaved road were in good conditions, although very mountainous. I stopped the car 138 meters to the exact point.

I left the car and hiked initially by a caatinga vegetation leg, not so dense, but with a lot of thorns, in that I needed to hike very carefully. The second leg of the hike, in more clean terrain, I crossed a valley, going down to its bottom and climbing up on the other side.

After visiting the point, I came back by the same way up to BR-116 highway, heading in southern direction, going to Pernambuco state, where the second confluence of the day lies. Before it, however, I stopped to have lunch in Brejo Santo city, yet in Ceará state.

This is my sixth visit in Ceará state. Although I was living in Ceará, I have no visits in this state by more than one year. The last visit was 5S 40W, in September 2012. Since then, I made 10 confluence visits in 8 different states, none of them in Ceará.